OpenID delegation and XFN

I contacted the FreeYourID folks earlier this week to ask them about adding an XFN link to my forwarding page at
will.norris.name. They seemed receptive to the idea and should hopefully be adding that soon. I was then telling
Chris Messina about it and I think he misunderstood me, but in the process got me thinking. You see, FreeYourID
does delegate OpenIDs off to MyOpenID, but the openid.delegate is the same as your FreeYourID URL. In addition to
this, they have a meta refresh tag to forward web traffic to a site of your choosing (claimID in my case). I was
asking for a rel="me" link for this forwarded URL be added.

But what about OpenID delegate URLs? Is there ever a case when it does not make sense to add rel="me" to an
OpenID delegate? I can’t imagine that there is, since the very act of delegating is saying “this is my ID over at this
other service”. With that in mind, I propose that openid delegates always include rel="me" in addition to
rel="openid.delegate". Rel is a space delimited multi-valued attribute, and I’ve successfully tested a couple of
different services. Here’s a concrete example of my OpenID delegation links here on willnorris.com…